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enClosing Seminar for Presente: Latino-Centered Learning Communitieshttps://ashp.cuny.edu/news/closing-seminar-presente-latino-centered-learning-communities
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>Closing Seminar for Presente: Latino-Centered Learning Communities</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 14:51</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/PRESENTE_0.jpg" alt="presente" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Over the past year ASHP staff have been working with faculty members from Bronx Community College CUNY to assist them in incorporating Latino history and culture into their courses and encouraging them to develop learning community clusters focused on Latino content. In December, <cite>Presente: Latino-Centered Learning Communities,</cite> hosted a closing event open to all BCC faculty where instructors shared their work and personal reflections on their experience of expanding their curriculum. Participating faculty represented a range of disciplines and highlighted their desire to advance various skills such as critical reading, active viewing, community engagement, and storytelling as part their exploration of Latino themes. Some faculty shared learning units developed with colleagues or adjustments made to their syllabi, and provided examples of student work and student responses to new content on U.S. Latino life and culture. </p><p>Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, <cite>Presente </cite>featured the work of fifteen faculty members from the humanities and social sciences.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:51:32 +0000dthompson9402 at https://ashp.cuny.eduASHP Hosts Public Program Serieshttps://ashp.cuny.edu/news/ashp-hosts-public-program-series
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>ASHP Hosts Public Program Series</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 13:13</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/Monuments.jpg" alt="Monuments of the Future: Alternative Approaches" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Join us Wednesday, February 6, 2019 from 6:30-8:00 pm for a public event, <em>Monuments of the Future: Alternate Approaches</em>, which will be held in the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. This panel and discussion will present physical and virtual alternatives to monument creation that use a variety of media to promote public dialogue about how and what we remember. Panelists include Kubi Ackerman, director of the "Future City Lab" at the Museum of the City of New York; Marisa Williamson, artist and creator of “Sweet Chariot: The Long Journey to Freedom Through Time; Ken Lum, co-curator of "Monument Lab: A Public Art and History Project" in Philadelphia; and will be moderated by Jill Straus, assistant professor, at Borough of Manhattan Community College.</p><p>ASHP has partnered with The Gotham Center for New York City History and the CUNY Public History Collective to host this series of public programs titled <em>Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation</em>. The series brings together historians, art historians, community activists, and artists to discuss the ongoing reevaluation of public monuments and memorials and to engage with audiences about the often controversial histories represented.</p><p>ASHP held the first event regarding the former J. Marion Sims monument on Fifth Avenue and 104th Street last spring. The second event was held in the fall of 2018 to discuss the history of monument creation, visions for new projects, and the current pressures on New York City agencies to respond to public opinion.</p><p>The event is <strong>free</strong> and <strong>open to the public</strong>. The series is made possible with funding from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit the <a href="https://ashp.cuny.edu/difficult-histories-public-spaces-series-public-programs">series homepage</a> to learn more about the upcoming program.</p><p><em><span class="alert-text">In order to promote a lively conversation and ensure the inclusion of as many voices as possible, we ask you to please share your thoughts on following questions on the future of monuments:</span></em></p><p><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/uAOh0vnb6LjcSdLV2">Survey: Monuments of the Future </a></p><p><em><span class="alert-text">Your responses will be pooled and presented to the panelists and the audience at the event on February 6th.</span></em></p></div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:13:02 +0000peter-admin9392 at https://ashp.cuny.eduWelcome to Our New Office Administratorhttps://ashp.cuny.edu/news/welcome-our-new-office-administrator
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>Welcome to Our New Office Administrator</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, January 17, 2019 - 12:13</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/julian-news.jpg" alt="Julian Ehsan photo portrait" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Julian Ehsan joined ASHP/CML in October 2018 as a college assistant, providing administrative and podcast production support to the Project's staff. He has previously worked in local and state politics, interning for a councilwoman, an alderman, and a state treasurer. A graduate of New York University, Julian received a B.A. in History and Metropolitan Studies, focusing on the intersections of race, class, and gender in United States culture, as well as the nefarious forces of capitalism and austerity politics in the formation of unfair and unequal cities. He hails from Chicago, but for the past four years has called New York and briefly, Berlin, home. </p></div></div></div>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:13:13 +0000pbender9382 at https://ashp.cuny.eduNEH Digital Humanities Grant for Who Built America?https://ashp.cuny.edu/news/neh-digital-humanities-grant-who-built-america
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>NEH Digital Humanities Grant for Who Built America?</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, January 17, 2019 - 12:11</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/WBA.jpg" alt="WBA" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History</em> will soon become an updated, completely free, open education resource (OER) finalizing a 38-year process of making social history accessible to the broad public thanks to a new grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities.</p><p>ASHP will work in partnership with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media to combine the 2-volume textbook with ASHP’s varied multimedia teaching resources including the ten 30-minute documentaries, “excursions” from the <em>Who Built America? </em>CD-ROMs and the website <a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/"><em>History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web</em></a>. The project allows us to revitalize the <em>History Matters </em>resources, which went online twenty years ago (ancient by web standards) with programming that will guarantee its stability for the future.</p><p>As a fully customizable OER, instructors will be able to make selections from the textbook, all the primary and teaching resources of <em>History Matters</em> as well as new features that will be added. Annelise Orleck, labor historian from Dartmouth College is updating the textbook with a new chapter covering 2007 to the present.</p><p>By its nature as an open digital resource, <em>Who Built America? The OER </em>will be available to the broad international public including trade unions, community-based activists, museums, and other organizations that have used ASHP’s educational materials for the past 38 years.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:11:40 +0000pbender9372 at https://ashp.cuny.eduDifficult Histories/Public Spaces — A Series of Public Programshttps://ashp.cuny.edu/news/difficult-histories-public-spaces-series-public-programs-1
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>Difficult Histories/Public Spaces — A Series of Public Programs</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:01</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/Featured_0.jpg" alt="Monuments of the Future: Alternative Approaches" title="Monuments of the Future: Alternative Approaches" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation</em> is a series of public programs in which historians, art historians, community activists, and artists will discuss the ongoing reevaluation of public monuments and memorials across the country and in New York City.</strong></p><p class="aligncenter"><div class="media media-element-container media-default"><div id="file-15692" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg">
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</div></p><p class="text-align-center"><strong><span class="alert-text"><span class="all-caps">Wednesday, February</span> 6th, 6:30-8:00 PM</span></strong></p><p class="text-align-center"><strong>Martin Segal Theatre<br />CUNY Graduate Center<br />365 Fifth Ave. (34th St)</strong></p><p>Looking for solutions to the dilemma of how to confront and constructively address difficult places of memory or their absence? This panel and discussion will offer physical and virtual alternatives that use a variety of media to promote public dialogue about how and what we remember.</p><ul><li><strong>Kubi Ackerman</strong> - Director of the "Future City Lab" at the Museum of the City of New York</li><li><strong>Marisa Williamson </strong>- Artist and creator of “Sweet Chariot: The Long Journey to Freedom Through Time"</li><li><strong>Ken Lum</strong> - Co-curator of "Monument Lab: A Public Art and History Project" in Philadelphia</li><li><strong>Jill Strauss </strong>(Moderator) - Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College</li></ul><p>Sponsored by:<br />American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning<br />The Gotham Center for New York City History<br />CUNY Public History Collective</p><p>This series is supported with funds from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. </p></div></div></div>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:01:35 +0000peter-admin9352 at https://ashp.cuny.eduRemembering Jesse Lemisch, 1936–2018https://ashp.cuny.edu/news/remembering-jesse-lemisch-1936-2018
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>Remembering Jesse Lemisch, 1936–2018</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Monday, November 5, 2018 - 12:43</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/109576_Jesse-Lemisch-2-466x375.jpg" alt="Jesse Lemisch" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Tamiment Library will host a memorial event for the late historian Jesse Lemisch. Following an hour’s worth of scheduled speeches, time will be allowed for attendees to add memories and comments of their own, followed by informal socializing with refreshments.</p><p>Scheduled speakers include several important figures who knew Lemisch both as an important radical intellectual and as a longtime friend: Staughton Lynd, another influential figure in the emergence of New Left history (he will speak via Skype); Marcus Rediker, author of several history books that reflect Lemisch’s concern with “history from below”; and Ann Gordon, director of the Stanton-Anthony Papers on the history of the woman suffrage movement. Blanche Wiesen Cook, biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt and a colleague of Lemisch at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, will be MC for the event.</p><p>In recognition of Lemisch’s standing, the event is being co-sponsored by the following: NYU History Department, Historians for Peace and Democracy, the Radical History Review, the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning, and the Society for US Intellectual History.</p><p><strong>Date:</strong><br />Thursday, December 6, 2018</p><p><strong>Time:</strong><br />4:30pm - 6:30pm EST</p><p><strong>Location:</strong><br />The Tamiment Library &amp; Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives<br />70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor<br />New York, NY 10012</p><p>For more information, contact historian Robert (Robby) Cohen of New York University at <a href="mailto:rpc6@nyu.edu">rpc6@nyu.edu</a>.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 17:43:00 +0000pbender9312 at https://ashp.cuny.eduStaff Changeshttps://ashp.cuny.edu/news/staff-changes-0
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>Staff Changes</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Monday, September 24, 2018 - 11:16</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/JB-35th.jpg" title="Josh Brown at 35th Anniversary" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In August 2018, Executive Director Josh Brown began a leave of absence from ASHP/CML preparatory to retiring in 2019. Josh started working at ASHP at its inception in 1981, first as art director/creative director, lending his expertise in social history, visual culture, and illustration to the creation of the two-volume textbook <cite>Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History</cite>, the accompanying award-winning documentary series, and succeeding CD-ROMs—as well as ASHP’s many digital, online, and professional development projects. Taking on the role of executive director in 1998 and joining the Graduate Center’s History faculty in 2003, Josh has been an NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellow, written and edited books and essays, and published numerous cartoons and illustrations. We await his forthcoming study of the visual culture of the Civil War and look forward to working with him on future collaborations. Associate Director Pennee Bender will serve as ASHP/CML’s interim director.</p><p>In May 2018, Associate Director Andrea Vasquez, was elected as First Vice President of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY’s faculty and staff union. A media producer/director and art designer at ASHP/CML since 1989, Andrea is managing director of The Graduate Center’s New Media Lab and director of the CUNY Digital History Archive, the online resource on the university’s past. Andrea will continue her work at ASHP/CML at reduced hours.</p><p>In September, we welcomed Amanda Bellows to our staff as Research Assistant for History Curriculum and Public History. She earned her Ph.D. and master’s degree in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include U.S. history in comparative and transnational perspective, slavery/emancipation, memory, and popular culture. She currently teaches at The New School and Hunter College, and serves as Project Historian for the New-York Historical Society’s latest exhibition, <cite>Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow</cite>. At ASHP/CML Amanda works on researching and designing interactive features for our forthcoming <em>Who Built America?</em> open educational resource, including writing teacher-focused new features and editing primary documents.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:16:22 +0000dthompson9282 at https://ashp.cuny.edu2018 NEH Summer Institute – The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermathhttps://ashp.cuny.edu/news/2018-neh-summer-institute-visual-culture-american-civil-war-and-its-aftermath
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>2018 NEH Summer Institute – The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 14:50</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2018groupgreg.jpg" title="2018 Group" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During two weeks this past July, the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning held our fourth National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. “<a href="https://ashp.cuny.edu/nehinstitute/">The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath</a>” institute was hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center and three New York City cultural institutions (New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Attended by twenty-five NEH Summer Scholars selected from colleges, universities, and museums across the country, the institute featured presentations, discussions, visits to local archives and museums, and hands-on workshops that focused on the era’s visual media to assess how information and opinion about the war were recorded and disseminated, and to consider ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ understanding on both sides of the conflict. For this fourth institute, we explored the struggle for equality beyond the years of the war, including the visualization of the extended war in the West, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.</p><p>The institute featured talks by fifteen noted historians, art historians, and archivists representing the range of current work in the field. In addition, a team of three institute faculty (Joshua Brown, Sarah Burns, and Gregory Downs) guided the participating scholars in ways to use visual evidence to enhance their research, writing, and teaching about the war and its short- and long-term effects. Topics discussed during the institute included Civil War photography, visualizing slavery and anti-slavery, the illustrated press, maps, textiles, Emancipation, the war in the West, and commemorative sculpture and public monuments. Visit <a href="https://ashp.cuny.edu/2018-schedule-and-syllabus">https://ashp.cuny.edu/2018-schedule-and-syllabus</a> for the full schedule of activities and speakers.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:50:41 +0000dthompson9272 at https://ashp.cuny.eduASHP Hosts New Public Program Serieshttps://ashp.cuny.edu/news/ashp-hosts-new-public-program-series
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>ASHP Hosts New Public Program Series</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Friday, September 14, 2018 - 14:44</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/WhoDecides.jpg" alt="Who Decides?" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In partnership with The Gotham Center for New York City History and the CUNY Public History Collective, ASHP is hosting a series of public programs titled <em>Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation</em>. The series brings together historians, art historians, community activists, and artists to discuss the ongoing reevaluation of public monuments and memorials and to engage with audiences about the often controversial histories represented.</p><p>ASHP held the first event,<cite> Monuments as: History / Art / Power</cite> on June 13, 2018. The panel presented a case study of the former J. Marion Sims monument on Fifth Avenue and 104th Street, and examined the historical context of Sims’s medical research and experimentation on enslaved women, the modern East Harlem community response to his current memorialization, and future possibilities for remembering this difficult history.</p><p>The second event, <em>Who Decides? The History and Future of Monument Creation in New York City</em> will be held on October 9, 2018 and will discuss the history of monument creation, visions for new projects, and the current pressures on New York City agencies to respond to public opinion. Participants will include Michele Bogart, author of the new<em> Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal In New York City</em>; Mary Anne Trasciatti, President, "Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition;” Jack Tchen, Professor of Public History and the Humanities, Rutgers University; and will be moderated by Todd Fine, History Doctoral Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center, and advocate of the monument for "Little Syria."</p><p>A third and final event, focused on alternative approaches to confronting and constructively addressing how difficult histories are memorialized in New York City and throughout the country, will be held on February 6, 2019. Further information will be posted closer to the date of the program. </p><p>All events are held in the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and are free and open to the public. The series is made possible with funding from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. </p><p>Visit <a href="https://ashp.cuny.edu/difficult-histories-public-spaces-series-public-programs">https://ashp.cuny.edu/difficult-histories-public-spaces-series-public-programs</a> to learn more about the upcoming programs. </p></div></div></div>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:44:03 +0000pmabli9262 at https://ashp.cuny.eduMission US: Time Snap – Can VR Enhance the Teaching of History?https://ashp.cuny.edu/news/mission-us-time-snap-can-vr-enhance-teaching-history-0
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2>Mission US: Time Snap – Can VR Enhance the Teaching of History?</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Friday, September 14, 2018 - 13:59</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ashp.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/TimeSnapVRheadset.png" alt="Time Snap Virtual Reality headset" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In June 2018, the <em>Mission US </em>team — Electric Funstuff , WNET/Thirteen, the American Social History Project, and Education Development Center — received funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to create a new groundbreaking series, <em>Mission US: Time Snap.</em> Building on a successful Phase I grant for prototype development and classroom testing, <em>Time Snap </em>combines new virtual reality (VR) technology with rigorous document-based instruction to explore how VR can support high school students in the work of “doing history.”</p><p>After decades of experimentation, VR is transporting audiences to normally out-of-reach places, allowing them to grapple with abstract concepts, scale, and dimensions in ways not possible with other media. With the production grant from the SBIR program, we are creating a series of four <em>Time Snap</em> missions that combine mobile headset-based VR and game-based learning to immerse high school students in four transformational moments in U.S. history: Boston, 1770; the Mason Dixon Line, 1851; the Great Plains, 1872; and the Lower East Side of New York, 1907.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:59:52 +0000pbender9252 at https://ashp.cuny.edu